The intended audience for San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s second-to-last State of the City speech was the six City Council Democrats who with their supermajority have the ability to block much of the Republican’s agenda. Or embrace it.

With two years left in office and legacy talk lurking, Faulconer made clear Tuesday night in his most high-profile address of the year what his agenda will be: more housing. Lots and lots of more housing.

Faulconer will ask the council to eliminate, near transit, building height limits outside the coastal zone and parking requirements tied to multifamily housing construction; to let developers build with less review, and to allow unlimited density for developments with affordable or homeless housing. He called it a radical overhaul targeting “anti-housing bias that kills development before it even starts.”

The council’s Democrats, at least one of whom is running for the open mayor’s seat in 2020, must now decide whether to support a proposal that community groups and environmentalists may line up against because the city has handled development projects on a case by case basis for decades to allow community input. That’s empowered NIMBYs and, recently, fueled a corresponding YIMBY movement.

Faulconer will have to be at his most persuasive. Tuesday, when he said home construction needs to be “easier, less expensive and faster,” was a start.